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Chapter 1
Definations and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| applied behavior analysis (ABA) | The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentaton is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior. |
| behaviorism | The philosophy of the science of behavior. |
| determinism | The assumption that the universe is a lawful and ordely place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events under naturally occuring conditions. |
| empiricism | The objective observation of the phenomena of interest; objective observations are "independent of the individual prejudices, tastes, and private opinions of the scientist... Results of empirical methods are objective in that they are open to anyone's obs |
| experiment | A carefully controlled comparsion of some measure of the phenomenon of interest (the dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time (the independent variable) differs from one condition to another. |
| experimantal analysis of behavior (EAB) | Founded by Skinner, a natural science approach for discovering orderly and reliable relations between behavior and various types of enviromental variables of which it is a function. |
| explanatory fiction | A fictitous variable that often is simple another name for the observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining the behavior. |
| functional relation | Exists when a well controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (dependent variable) can reliably be produced by specific amnipulations of another event (independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikel |
| hypothetical construct | A presumed but unobserved process or entity (e.g., Freud's id, ego and superego). |
| mentalism | An approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental "inner," dimension exists that differ from a behavioral dimension and that phenomena in this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior, if not all. |
| methodological behaviorism | A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science. |
| parsimony | The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations. |
| philosophic doubt | An attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned. |
| radical behaviorism | A thoroughgoing form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny). |
| replication | (a)Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity.(b) Repeating whole experiments to determine the generality of findings of previous experiments to other subjects, settings, and/or behavio |
| science | A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena (as evidenced by description, prediction, and control) that relies on determinism as it fundamental assumption, empiricism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strtegy, replicati |
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